Warren R. Perry

Landscape Transformations and the Archaeology of Impact

Social Disruption and State Formation in Southern Africa
Mitarbeit:Agorsah, E. Kofi

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An attempt to use archaeological materials to investigate the colonization of southeastern Africa during the period 1500 to 1900. Perry demonstrates the usefulness of archaeology in bypassing the biases of the ethnohistorical and documentary record and generating a more comprehensive understanding of history. Special attention is paid to the period of state formation in Swaziland and a critique of the `Settler Model', which the author finds to be invalid.

Produktdetails

• Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4757-7250-0
• 2002
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781475772500
• ISBN-10: 1475772505
• Artikelnr.: 39561540

Inhaltsangabe

Southern Africa and the Archaeology of Impact.- The Mfecane/Difaqane Problem from the Documentary Record.- Archaeological Correlates of the Settler Model.- Previous Archaeological Research.- Using Archaeology to Study the Processes of the Mfecane/Difaqane.- Toward an Archaeology of Impact.